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2001 Duke Blue Devils football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4598628 ↗
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The 2001 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by third-year head coach Carl Franks, the Blue Devils compiled an overall record of 0–11 with a mark of 0–8 in conference play, placing last out of nine teams in the ACC. The team played home games at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina.

Duke went winless for the second consecutive season.

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This entry incorporates text from “2001 Duke Blue Devils football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.